The Moriarity Cover is done and up for viewing

I gave this a lot of thought.

Originally, I was going to call my novel "The Adventures of Professor Moriarity."

But then I got to thinking about it and it didn't quite feel right. Yes, Moriarity is in the novel, and many, many times over, but this is a different take on Moriarity.

It's a what if. What if Moriarity had taken a different turn in his life. What if the infinite choices we all have to choose from hadn't led to him becoming the despised and awful villain of the cannon of Sherlock Holmes stories we've all become familiar with.

What if this Moriarity was physically the same perhaps, but also of a kinder bent?

What if this Moriarity was as brilliant as Sherlock Holmes and the Professor Moriarity, but instead of being cold and intellectual, he was warm and jovial?

What kind of Moriarity would this man be?

In this novel I explore his relationship to the old one through the relationships of people who knew him when he wasn't so nice.

This may not make sense on some levels, and normally it wouldn't. People pretty much stay the same all their lives. If they are evil in nature, they seldom change. If they are kind in nature, they seldom change.

Humanity is not known for evolving positive characteristics in a rapid manner, but rather over long courses of time...and if you believe in reincarnation....many lifetimes.

And so I came up with this novel.

I will let you know when the tradebook is available. But for now I'm posting an image of the front cover. The book weighs in at over three hundred pages and I've loaded at the end of it a good portion of my second novel which will be in print soon, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

I'm still working on Journey's edit, but hopefully I will have that one ready for print in the next week or so.

Meanwhile, have fun with this sneak preview of Moriarity: